The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-11
Religious Notes.

Russ;n: Intellect has been called the starlight
of the brain. Religion Is the starlight OF the
soul.
The English Church establishment receives
about 800 0OO 600 yearly as tithes. Of this
SIS, OO0 600 go for salaries of clergymen.
1t is rumored in Catholic circles that third
cardinal will be appointed to this country IN thsk
person of Archbishop Feehan.of Chicago
The first Catholic chaplain TO the United
States navy will be priest from the archdiocese
of New York Who it will be will be known in !.
a couple of weeks.
Stems are being taken to erect a chapel att
Ieatherhead. England where Wesleys last ser-s
mon was preached week before his death Al
society recently organized there has now az
membership of fifty.
If all missionaries evangelists. and teachers
in papal pagan, and Moslem lands, including Z.
men and women. foreign born aiid native born,
were economically distributed. each would have
%, 900 souls to care for.
little to the southeast of the Garden OF
Gethsemane between the two roads which lead
southwark, the emperor of Russia and his
brothers building small but beautiful and
costly church as a memorial OF their mother
Emerson: Every man takes care that his
neighbor shall not cheat him. But day comes
when he begins TO care that he does not cheat
his neighbor Then all goes we'll BE has
changed his market cart into chariot of the SUM-
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Those who have no
ear for music must be very careful how they
speak about the mys ferrous world of thrilling
vibrations which are idle noises to them And
so the true saint can be entirely appreciateds
only by sanity natures
The Spurgeon family in London is represented
by three clersymen. The membership under
their care, it is said constitutes more than one-
sixth of the membership III the London Baptist
association. Mr. Thomas Spurgeon, son OF
Charles H, is pastor of one-fourth of all the
Baptists in New Zealand
The Greensburg Standard says: cit is matt
ter of much rejoicing among the Methodists and
citizens of Adams, Ind, that Mr.. Thomas
Haeton has generously donated natural gas TO
the Methodist church, and the trustees and
members have pipe6 it. Sabbath, Nov. 20, the
church was, for the first time heated by 1t. and
the house be comfortably warmed with
about onesixth the pressure"
A genuine Christian life solves all social prob.
lens. will not cheat or Cypress tbs
brethren whom he genuinely loves. All chile
dren agree when all love their parents God IS
Father, and his genuine children dwell and la
Dor in harmony. The Sons prayer contains
enough to convert and harmonlze the world
The great trouble is-nearly al men want the
other fellow to be governed by the instructions
in that prayer
DR. Cameron Lees minister of ST Giles
Edinburgh before leaving Melbourne. threw.
out the suggestion that Scotsmen in Australia
should assume the responsibility OF erecting h
monument to John Knox in St Giles, where
the reforlner often Numbered from the pulpit.
The suggestion has found much favor and Is !.
likely to take a practical shape. DIR. Marshall
Lang of Glasgow has sailed for Melbourne TO,
continue the pacific work begun by DIR. Lees
The Baptists of Canada have agreed to accent
Mr. McMasters request OF three-quarters OF a
million of dollars the testator's terms The
money is TO be used in founding university
With a view to this same end charter has been
granted by the Ontario Legislature for the union
of the Toronto and Woodstock colleges
Whether the new university shall be located al
Woodstock or in Toronto is TO be determined az
a special session of the Board OF Home Missions.
And now Martin Luthers views on future
probation are reproduced by The Christian
Union. II thinks that Luther did not believe in
the modern theory that men can be saved with
out knowledge of Christ II IS clear, also. it
says. that Luther did not hold the dogma of the
absolutely decisive nature of this life's prcba-
ton for all men, whether they have heard of
Christ or cot; sin less 10 the idea that any man
who does not hold to that dogma is unworthy or
Christian fellowship or Of ministerial ordina-
ton His position is substantially that of Mr.
Morse, of the rejected candidates for mis-
sionary appointment by the American board;
cannot say that the hypothesis of future
probation is certainly false. but wecannot affirm
ii to be positively true